Talk:Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (song)

"Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" cultural reference

I'm sorry. I have no idea what I'm doing. I was on the page for the song "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" and I wanted to add a brief note to it (the kind of thing I've done many times before), but it was a stub and I have no experience with editing stubs. So I was just going to add a note about it on the talk page (something else I have done many times), but that's a stub too, and an empty one (more or less) at that. I saw a note saying that if I wanted to do anything I should join the project or something, something I've never done and have no idea how to do. I followed a link to this page (well, the main page of which this is the talk page) but I don't even know if I'm in the right place. So I'm adding this note hoping against hope that someday, someone who knows what they're doing will see this and do something with it.

All I wanted to do was to mention that in the early 1960s, the late Allan Sherman wrote and recorded a parody of the song on his album, My Son the Nut. It was about a Martian who lost his girlfriend, and it was called Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue. Hccrle (talk) 23:19, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Retitling needed

The title of this article is "Has Anybody Seen My Gal" but the article itself gives the song's title "Has Anybody Seen My Girl". Since "Girl" is the original title, and the article makes no mention of the song becoming better known as "Gal", the article should be retitled "Has Anybody Seen My Girl (song)". 70.73.90.119 (talk) 17:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

I have edited to reflect this and other points. I believe the only way to change the title of the page is to move it. I will have to study up on that.

This page has numerous issues but I will look at them another time. The sad thing is that some of this unsourced content has been copied at numerous sites. Lyn50 (talk) 02:37, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Should the title be "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue"?

Or Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)?

First, the title of the song as copyrighted in 1925 is "Five foot two, eyes of blue; has anybody seen my girl". The opening of the article now has it the other way round: "Has Anybody Seen My Girl? (Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue)" (Amended)

Second, the opening paragraph now states that the song is known "sometimes simply as 'Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue'" (my italics). (Amended)

As far as I can see from discographic sources, since 1925 the song has nearly always been recorded as "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue", sometimes with the addition of "Has Anybody Seen My Girl?", but not usually. Citations can easily be compiled for a future edit.

See: Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1925 Musical Compositions For the Year 1925, Library of Congress, Copyright Office (facsimile at Internet Archive) Lyn50 (talk) 11:35, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

I did site searches of Discogs.com to see the frequencies of title variations amongst the listings there.

This is a summary. Message me if you want to see more detail.

SHORTENED TITLES

Has Anybody Seen My Girl/Gal alone as song title 428

Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue alone as song title 14,400

ORDER OF THE TWO HALVES IN FULL TITLES (with or without comma or brackets):

Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue | Has Anybody Seen My Girl/Gal 2326

Has Anybody Seen My Girl/Gal | Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue 0 (zero) (NB this format is used in the opening sentence of the article) (Amended)

GIRL or GAL?

In shortened titles:

Gal 285 Girl 143

In full titles

Gal 598 Girl 1728

Flaws:

1. It doesn't account for repeated issues of a track by a popular artist, however this would still add to the familiarity of the title in question.

2. It doesn't account for other songs with the same title: not unheard off, but hard to assess. Lyn50 (talk) 08:16, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Now edited to address some of this. Lyn50 (talk) 02:38, 4 January 2024 (UTC)